{"id":1402380,"date":"2025-04-03T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1402380"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:49:19","slug":"rusk-police-chief-placed-on-leave-amid-active-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1402380","title":{"rendered":"Rusk police chief placed on leave amid active investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Rusk_Heagney-e1743712940431-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1402381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Rusk_Heagney-e1743712940431-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Rusk_Heagney-e1743712940431.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>RUSK &#8211; The Rusk Police Department\u2019s chief has been placed on leave pending an active city investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to City Manager Bob Goldsberry, Rusk\u2019s Chief of Police Scott Heagney was placed on administrative paid leave Wednesday after a complaint was filed against him.<\/p>\n<p>Goldsberry said Sgt. Jeremy Farmer will be in charge of day-to-day operations while investigation is active.<\/p>\n<p>Our news partner, KETK, reports that officials have not released details of the investigation, however, Goldsberry said the city will provide details once it has concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSK &#8211; The Rusk Police Department\u2019s chief has been placed on leave pending an active city investigation. According to City Manager Bob Goldsberry, Rusk\u2019s Chief of Police Scott Heagney was placed on administrative paid leave Wednesday after a complaint was filed against him. Goldsberry said Sgt. Jeremy Farmer will be in charge of day-to-day operations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1402380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rusk police chief placed on leave amid active investigation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1402384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Rusk_Heagney-e1743712940431-200x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 23:14:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/Rusk_Heagney-e1743712940431-200x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402383,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402380\/revisions\/1402383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}